BB has cared for many houseplants over the years, but our air plants are the coolest ones yet.
If you’re familiar with them, you know their scientific name is Tillandsia, that they’re a member of the Bromeliad family, and are known in general as an epiphyte — something that gets all of its moisture and nutrients […]

Unless you live in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens; visit it because your child attends its progressive Maple Street School; or read Across the Park, this largely Caribbean neighborhood — just south of Crown Heights and east of Prospect Park – is hard for “inner” Brooklynites to visualize. So BB reached out to friends Kelly Kingman and Paul […]

The local housing market may look gloomy, but there are two bright spots:
Brooklyn Cohousing Group
Their vision is lofty — “create an oasis of community amid the swirling intensity of New York City” — yet four households in the Brooklyn Cohousing Group have already ponied up $10,000-$20,000 to construct or develop a building with a central […]

Eve Levine has taken some heat for the title of her real estate seminars, and for good reason: Homebuying for Hipsters just begs to be mocked on blogs.
“I caught a lot flack for the name … but what was I going to call it? Downpayments for Douchebags?”
The fact is, it works. “As much as people […]

As the owner of the urban garden design firm Prospect & Refuge, Maria Finn hears a lot of funny stories about people and plants coexisting in NYC — like the woman who brought in a lawyer to stop her neighbor’s ivy from growing on her brownstone.
As a writer, however, she knows there are few places […]

Bystanders at local construction sites might think he’s a bit bizarre. As a sculptor who shows up during excavations and scavenges for boulders to bring back to his Brooklyn Rockwerks studio in Bushwick, Adam Distenfeld says he often receives curious looks. But the final results are worth it.
You might have seen one of his zen-like […]

This weekend’s itinerary poses a doozy: deciding which music festival to go to.
Option 1: The 7th annual Village Voice Siren Festival on Saturday. This will likely be your last chance to hear a top-notch, all-indie lineup beneath the shadow of The Cyclone, including the legendary New York Dolls, Omaha’s Cursive, and London’s M.I.A. (whose […]

A nice apartment that’s fairly priced — practically an oxymoron in New York City.
But 28-year-old Jason Goodman, who built and opened 3rd Ward, the 30,000 square foot artist/party space in Bushwick, with his friend and business partner Jeremy Lovitt, has an inside scoop on BK real estate. For several years he and Lovitt have worked […]

You may want to call in sick on Friday to attend the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment’s third annual Green Brooklyn expo, a day-long event meant to encourage New Yorkers to make their lives a little more eco. The non-profit, known mostly for its tours through industrial zones like Newtown Creek, has added more […]

A strange horn signals the title track of Myth Takes, the third album from the Brooklyn octet, !!! (often pronounced chk chk chk), like a pied piper calling all the freaks to come out. It crescendoes into the frenetic, energetic “All My Heroes Are Weirdos,” and then kicks into drive on “Must Be […]